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@jamesdraney.bsky.social
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VAP in the Writing Program at Haverford College. Working on a book about the novel, interiority, and big data. tinyurl.com/yc6jdn9z

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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Adrienne Rich, from "Artificial Intelligence" (1961)
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reading "Transcription"
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Barthes on his daily routine: write from 9:30-1; lunch; play the piano at 2:30; paint a bit.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#MLA26: Looking forward to thinking about realism and distraction with these fine folks on Sunday afternoon. I'll be presenting a new paper on one of my favorite recent novels, @rosalindbrown.bsky.social's Practice (2024).
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
just purchased looking forward to listening
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
new New Yorker caption contest just dropped
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
reading On the Calculation of Volume
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
it's nice when one's long-dormant dream is rekindled
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
There'd also be a subplot involving a confrontation between Michael Caine and @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
POV: It's 2007 and you're in the computer room at your best friend's house. He logs into AOL and tells you to pull up a chair. He wants to show you a documentary that changed his life.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The big Other doesn't exi--
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Throwing this unsung classic into the canon of '90s films about Just Hanging Out
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 1990s were fun because every movie was about a prolonged postcollegiate Hang Out with your aimless friends
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
airport brain
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
even the signage is suffering from imposter syndrome
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington - 4-record set by Book-Of-The-Month Records. Recorded right before Ellington's death in the early '70s. There's an air of nostalgia in Hines's playing. One master honoring another.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Jonathan Crary, from Scorched Earth
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
From William James's Principles of Psychology
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Me: mom can we stop and get some classical music to relax/study to Mom: we have classical music to relax/study to at home What's at home:
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The lost poetics of TV static, 1982-2002 (The Ring, Videodrome, The Seventh Continent, Poltergeist)
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Not a cell phone in sight. Just a nice walk on the beach. No podcasts, no FaceTime. Just thinking some thoughts and living in the moment.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
One significant yet unsung casualty of AI image generators: this kind of bright/clunky handmade Word Art sign.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You: discursive formations embedded in cultural products regulate the field of the sayable and thinkable, conditioning and even constituting social imaginaries Me: yeah man Deep Impact (1998) really messed with my expectations about what tsunamis look like
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Tolstoy on the causes of war: "Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals... History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind, uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes"
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Napoli, June 2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Max Beckmann's paining 'Death' is a beacon for endangered souls. It accepts the existence of a compromised society and yet does not rule out all meaning or value nor pretend these compromises should be ignored. It marks a spot where optimism is kept in check and nihilism is kept at bay" - Kentridge
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Tolstoy on individuals' "passions, regrets, humiliations, sufferings, bursts of pride, fear, rapture" as mere components in the "slow movement of the world-historical hand on the clockface of human history."
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Looking forward to participating in the "Large Language Models and Literature" ALCA panel organized by @aaronrhanlon.com and @ninabegus.bsky.social. May 30-31. 10.30 am - 12.15 pm Central Time.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Nice to be back in a Blue State
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Richard Powers on the English Dept. in the age of AI (From Galatea 2.2)
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Kenner on the modernist novel as finite, enclosed lexical space. "It was [Flaubert] who defined the element of the novel as not the event but the word; just as it was Mallarmé who said that poems were made of words, not ideas." From "Art in a Closed Field"
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
From H.S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" (Straight Arrow Books, 1973). Image by Tom W. Benton.
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Cronenberg on media theory as eschatology
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
every day I wake up and think: will today be the day I finally buy this book?
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Yeah this is great but what about Baby's First Boulez
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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James @jamesdraney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2025
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